Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and Edward Baker Lincoln ( Eddie ) in 1846.

In 1846, Lincoln was elected to the U. S. House of Representatives, where he served one two-year term.

Realizing Clay was unlikely to win the presidency, Lincoln, who had pledged in 1846 to serve only one term in the House, supported General Zachary Taylor for the Whig nomination in the 1848 presidential election.

In 1846 nitrocellulose ( also known as guncotton ) was discovered, and the high explosive nitroglycerin was discovered at much the same time.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

It was started in 1846 and is one of the oldest daily newspapers in the United States.

The original Boston Herald was founded in 1846 by a group of Boston printers jointly under the name of John A. French & Company.

In January 1846, a peculiar skull was taken from the banks of Murrumbidgee River near Balranald, New South Wales.

Work was also progressing on the northern half of the West Wing ( The Egyptian Sculpture Gallery ) 1826 – 1831, with Montagu House demolished in 1842 to make room for the final part of the West Wing, completed in 1846, and the South Wing with its great colonnade, initiated in 1843 and completed in 1847, when the Front Hall and Great Staircase were opened to the public.

In 1846 Robert Smirke was replaced as the Museum's architect by his brother Sydney Smirke, whose major addition was the Round Reading Room 1854 – 1857 ; at in diameter it was then the second widest dome in the world, the Pantheon in Rome being slightly wider.

Bolventor parish was established in 1846 ( before that date the village was in St Neot parish ) but has now been merged with Altarnun.

While the first telegraph company was the Toronto, Hamilton and Niagara Electro-Magnetic Telegraph Company, founded in 1846, it was the Montreal Telegraph Company, controlled by Hugh Allan and founded a year later, that dominated in Canada during the technology's early years.

The planet Neptune was discovered in Capricornus by German astronomer Johann Galle, near Deneb Algedi ( δ Capricorni ) on September 23, 1846, which is appropriate as Capricornus can be seen best from Europe at 4: 00am in September.

Cambridge was incorporated as a city in 1846.

He was the elder of the two children of John Calvin Coolidge, Sr. ( 1845 – 1926 ) and Victoria Josephine Moor ( 1846 – 1885 ).

Robert Peel was able to reconcile the new industrial class to the Tory landed class by persuading the latter to accept the repeal of the Corn Laws in 1846.

The first census was carried out in 1846 then it is carried out every 10 years.

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints ( Strangite ) uses the 1846 edition that was published in Nauvoo, Illinois ; this version is virtually identical to the 1844 edition.

** Jan Tyssowski was Dictator from 24 February 1846-2 March 1846.

It was finally published in the October – November 1846 issue of the Journal de Mathématiques Pures et Appliquées.

Lars Magnus Ericsson ( 5 May 1846 – 17 December 1926 ) was a Swedish inventor, entrepreneur and founder of telephone equipment manufacturer Ericsson ( incorporated as Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson ).

Madison was incorporated as a village in 1846, with a population of 626.

Revere was set off from Chelsea and incorporated in 1846 and Winthrop was set off from Revere and incorporated in 1852.

The proposed scheme received considerable discussion and was finally incorporated by the state legislature ( 4 March 1846 ) into " An Act to establish a System of Common Schools.

Elias Moore donated land for a seat for the new county in 1843 and the town was incorporated Booneville in 1846.

Kingston was incorporated as a city in 1846.

It was designated as the parish seat of government in 1846 and incorporated on March 18, 1902, during the administration of Governor William Wright Heard.

Smithsburg was incorporated in 1846.

Pemberton was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 10, 1846, from portions of New Hanover Township, Northampton Township ( now known as Mount Holly Township ) and Southampton Township.

West Amwell Township was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on April 6, 1846, when Amwell Township was split, also creating East Amwell Township at the same time.

What is now Barnegat Township was incorporated as Union Township on March 10, 1846, from portions of both Dover Township ( now Toms River Township ) and Stafford Township, while the area was still part of Monmouth County.

Upper Pittsgrove Township was incorporated on March 10, 1846, from portions of Pittsgrove Township.

It was founded in 1846 and incorporated in 1878.

Harrisville was incorporated in 1846 by joining Harrisville and Reedsville.

In 1839 a post office was established there, and Berlin would be incorporated in 1846, and within five years it would be home to 351 people.

On May 18, 1846 the Albion Road Company was incorporated.

By 1846, the area was incorporated as the village of Prairieville.

This acquisition also included the continuation from Rochester to Portland, Maine, incorporated in 1846 as the York and Cumberland Railroad.

The Medford Branch Railroad was incorporated in 1845 and absorbed by the B & M in 1846, opening in 1847.

The Newburyport Railroad was incorporated in 1846.

In 1846 the Wycombe Railway Company was incorporated and built a single track broad gauge line to connect Maidenhead to High Wycombe via Cookham and Bourne End.

The Covington and Cincinnati Bridge Company was incorporated in February 1846, and the company asked Roebling about a bridge plan.